Foreign contractors and nonprofits in 177 countries received more than $6.4 billion in United States' federal pandemic response assistance between the spring of 2020 and the fall of 2021, according to a report by the U.S. Office of Inspector General's Pandemic Response Accountability Committee.
About $2.132 billion of the $6.4 billion in internationally distributed U.S. pandemic relief funds was deposited and distributed through banks in Switzerland because many international nonprofits and organizations are headquartered in Geneva.
The pandemic relief funds that went to non-domestic recipients are in addition, or supplementary, to existing U.S. foreign aid programs, which totaled $51 billion in aid obligations to 11,000 recipients across the globe in 2020.
Since spring 2020, USAID maintains it has supported "More than 120 countries in their fight to contain and combat the virus" by providing $5.7 billion for vaccinations, including $700 million to strengthen vaccination programs and to purchase 1 billion Pfizer vaccines for distributions around the world.
During fiscal year 2022, USAID reports it had $4.7 billion "Obligated"-$502 million in contracts, $4.2 million in grants-and dispersed $3.1 billion in 781 pandemic relief awards to 287 recipients, including many in Africa.
According to the Treasury, in 2020 Congress appropriated $3.8 billion for international COVID-19 relief efforts and by April 2021, had added another $10.8 billion in COVID-19 foreign-aid funding, totaling $14.6 billion.
OpenTheBooks maintains the $6.4 billion figure cited by PRAC, and even the $14,6 billion cited by Treasury, does not include all foreign-related COVID-19 spending, such as allocations for the U.S. Health & Human Services global vaccine program, the $9.6 billion in "Total COVID-19 budgetary resources" earmarked for USAID, or the American subsidiaries of foreign companies,.
Friday, January 28, 2022
More Than $6.4 Billion in US Pandemic Aid Sent Abroad, Including China
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